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Victor Pemberton (1931–2017)

Autor/a de Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

21+ obres 420 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Obres de Victor Pemberton

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep (1986) 181 exemplars
Doctor Who: The Pescatons (1991) 129 exemplars
Doctor Who and the Pescatons (1976) 26 exemplars
Flying With the Angels (2003) 12 exemplars
When the Swallows Come Again (2008) 9 exemplars
A Perfect Stranger (2001) 8 exemplars
Nellie's War (1998) 7 exemplars
The Silent War (1996) 6 exemplars
The Slide (2007) 5 exemplars
Goodnight Amy (2000) 4 exemplars
We'll Sing at Dawn (2005) 3 exemplars
My Sister Sarah (2000) 3 exemplars
A Long Way Home (2007) 2 exemplars
The Other Side of the Track (2006) 2 exemplars
The Chandler's Daughter (2004) 1 exemplars
Our Rose: Unabridged (1999) 1 exemplars
The Other Side of the Track (2006) 1 exemplars
Leo's Girl (2001) 1 exemplars
Doctor Who and the Pescatons (1994) 1 exemplars

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Talkback, Volume One: The Sixties (2006) — Interviewee — 11 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Pemberton, Victor Francis
Data de naixement
1931-10-10
Data de defunció
2017-08-13
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Islington, London, England, UK
Lloc de defunció
Spain

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A bit of light reading. Cheap production. Fairly weak plot. Typical Dr Who
 
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MarkKeeffe | Apr 1, 2009 |
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1046178.html#cutid6

On the one hand, it scores over the audio version on which it is based by having a larger number of active characters and a wider view of the action. On the other hand, Pemberton's writing style is absolutely dire, with a cringeworthy phrase on almost every page. In addition, he seems unsure which Doctor he is writing for, with the appearance of a flute (ie recorder) at the end, and a confusion about whether we are in the 1960s or 1970s. Not quite the worst novelisation or spinoff fiction I've read, but really one for completists only.… (més)
 
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nwhyte | Jun 9, 2008 |
http://nhw.livejournal.com/982106.html

I admit I found the original story a bit lacking; since then, however, I've seen the few surviving clips on the "Lost In Time" DVD and it really does look much better than it sounded. Also, in the context of a Doctor Who which was moving more to contemporary England as a setting, it makes more sense; it is a successful (and maybe in some ways better) prototype for some of the Pertwee stories. (Drilling-awakes-ancient-enemy of course goes back to Lovecraft and before, but reappears in Who in Inferno and The Power of Kroll at least.)

Anyway, the book is OK, and as you can see has prompted me to re-evaluate the original story, but it is not a great work of literature. As with too many of the Target novelisations, it is mostly narrated as if the author were simply writing down what is visible on the TV screen, and Pemberton's occasional excursions into tight third are actually jarring and often unsuccessful. The Doctor and companions get apparently killed so often that it loses dramatic impact (and this occasionally calls forth thunderously bad prose, citing for instance pp 129-130). On the other hand, the book does make more sense than the original story and fills in some of the plot gaps and backgrounds to the characters, and Victoria's decision to depart is decently foreshadowed. And the monster, as so often, is more convincing on the printed page. So I don't regret buying it.
… (més)
 
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nwhyte | Jan 10, 2008 |

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Obres
21
També de
1
Membres
420
Popularitat
#58,060
Valoració
3.0
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
79

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